Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 is Now Available

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 on May 10, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.55, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. You can find release details in the 5.5.55-38.8 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

New Features:

• Percona Server 5.5 packages are now available for Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus).

Bugs Fixed:

• If a bitmap write I/O errors happened in the background log tracking thread while a FLUSH CHANGED_PAGE_BITMAPS is executing concurrently it could cause a server crash. Bug fixed #1651656.
• Querying TABLE_STATISTICS in combination with a stored function could lead to a server crash. Bug fixed #1659992.
• Queries from the INNODB_CHANGED_PAGES table would needlessly read potentially incomplete bitmap data past the needed LSN range. Bug fixed #1625466.
• It was not possible to configure basedir as a symlink. Bug fixed #1639735.

Other bugs fixed: #1688161, #1683456, #1670588 (upstream #84173), #1672389, #1675623, #1660243, #1677156, #1680061, #1680510 (upstream #85838), #1683993, #1684012, #1684025, and #1674281.

Find the release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 in our online documentation. Report bugs on the launchpad bug tracker.